…a boomer muses about life, change, joys, sorrows and freedom from the prison of corporate life.

In Search Of?

It’s interesting to me to learn what brings people to this blog and what posts are the most popular. Fortunately, WordPress provides me with a “dashboard” which shows me how many “hits” I have each day, which posts were read by how many people and what search terms certain people entered which brought them to this blog.

No, what I’ve learned from studying the search terms is that my title of “Star Simplified, Pseudo M.D.” is secure. Any time I write a post that is in any way medical, it gets hit over and over. The one post that seems to be read more than any other is “My Pink Eye Week.” It is read every single day by someone and usually more than one person. This is understandable to me because when you realize you have pink eye, it’s scary and you want to know all you can about it. And I actually did write it as sort of a public service.

Then I have the search terms “stitches lip surgery” and “big lip surgery” which I assume refer to my lip surgery Before and After. And there are always a lot of terms like “do nail beds grow back?” “damaged nail beds” and “nail bed baby toe,” all which lead people to my post in which I show a picture of how I had to remove most of my thumbnail (gross, but interesting.) I also get “toothache” and “humidity toothache (?)” which I can only assume take people to the post in which I wrote a letter “To My Depressed Tooth.” Anyway, you get the picture. If you want pseudo medical advice, this blog is the place to get it. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll make one up! And all my advice is free!

Of course, there are a few terms which I just can’t explain, such as “Is hell an endless loop?” Another is “bed couple xxx.” And one that particularly amuses me which showed up recently is “dead by banana.” Huh?

One day I was particularly excited because I had 117 hits, all referred from another blog. I went to see what it was and this is what I found:

It doesn’t come through very clear here, but the whole thing is in Chinese! I’m hoping there is something in there that says, “Go look at this extremely funny, touching, intelligent blog written by a very wonderful American woman! ” On the other hand, it could be saying something negative, instead, which would make me very sad, so maybe it’s for the best that I can’t read the language.

But then, I guess even that would be better than being dead by banana!…